Engineer Manager

Subhash Pawar

**, ***** *****, **** ********* CHS, Above Bhavani Bank,

Saibaba Road, Khar East, Mumbai, Maharashtra,INDIA-400051.

Mobile: +91-922*******/+91-982*******

Email: **.*******@*****.***

Skype ID: subhash_pawar

OBJECTIVE:

To overcome technical barriers in expressing 3D creativity.

HIGHLIGHTS:

More than 8 years of experience. I would like to describe myself as an experienced 3D Technical

Artist; I would benefit the team best in areas of Rigging, Technical Animation, Tool Development

and R & D in CG Production Pipeline.

Realistic\Cartoony deformations, Mechanical Setups, Automated Riggs,Muscles, Hair, Fur, n-

Cloth, Automated\Manual Setups, Scripting.

Overall troubleshooting skills, Team management, and excellent communication with animators.

Coming from an Engineering background, my passion for art and movies urged me to pursue a

career in animation. Having started my career as a Rigging Artist, I have extended my skill set in

areas including Task Automation and Tool Development in scripting languages like MEL and

Python.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from Mumbai University.

SKILLS:

Expert Level Rigging in Maya/3ds Max, MEL Scripting

Intermediate Level Modeling, Texturing, Animation, FX, Lighting in Maya, Adobe Photoshop, XSI,

Houdini, After Effects, Adobe Flash, Python Scripting, Motion Builder, Motion

Capture

Beginner Level Visual Studio, PERL Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Dec 2011 to till Date T echnical Artist / Lead Rigger at KORE Studios, Ohio, USA.

I am doing Character Rigging, Facial Rigging and troubleshooting of Modeling,

Texturing, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, MEL Scripts, etc. for this USA based

Gaming Studio.

Aug 2011 to Nov 2011 Self Employed

W orked as a freelance Rigger for San Francisco based Spitball Entertainment

Inc. Also worked as a freelancer in a various roles like Supervisor / Lead

Rigger / PipeLine Engineer for few Mumbai based Studios viz. Insect

Animation Studios, Nuke Animation Studios, MotionMaker Studios.

Jan 2011 to July Supervisor/Lead Rigger at Digitales Animation Studio, Mumbai

Handled few key responsibilities of setting up and maintaining production

2011

pipeline. Set up directory structure at central file server, giving appropriate

access permissions for various workstations and troubleshooting technical

problems.

Developed MEL scripts for automation of rigging for an Indian feature film.

Reduced rendering time by developing and deploying Point Cache Scri pt.

Sped up the generation of blend shapes and corrective shapes, using

Maya plug-ins like The Face Machine and Pose Deformer.

Managed batch rendering with the software ‘Deadline Render Manager’.

Developed hair dynamic script to control secondary animation in FK mode.

Did rig and fur (in Maya 2009 used plug-in Shave & HairCut 5.5v21) f or a

character Rabbit in a clip of an Indian TV serial.

Did rig and n-Cloth f or realistic human characters cloth simulation for

Middle-Eastern TV Serial.

Did rig using Maya Muscles of character Beast for a company show-reel.

Trained, guided and supervised junior rigging artists.

Communicating with clients to handle their queries.

Sep 2006 to Dec Senior Rigger at Crest Animation Studio, Mumbai

Rigged v arious types of characters like Realistic, Semi-Realistic, Toony,

2010

(4 years 3 months) Aliens and Cartoon.

Rigged simple and dynamic props.

Developed MEL script for managing rigs of Non Flip Arm, Bendy Arm/Leg

and Hair Dynamics.

Developed MEL scripts for managing Stretchy Spine On/Off, COD, Match

Axis Orientation of Controllers with Joints, Attributes of Finger Movements

with SDK, matching of Fk/IK modes for Hand & Leg Setup.

W orked extensively for TV serials, DVDs, Feature Films (Alpha & Omega,

W ord World,MBC), Commercial Ads and E-learning Projects.

Trained, mentored rigging teams.

All projects were done in Autodesk Maya 6.5, 7, 2008.

July 2005 to Sep Rigging Artist at UTV Toons, Mumbai

Rigged Realistic and Semi-Realistic characters in 3ds Max 7.

2006

Rigged simple and dynamic props.

(1 year 2 months)

Simulated cloths for a TV Serial in Maya 6 with the help of Plug-in Syflex

Cloth.

W orked for TV Serials (Magic Cellar, Freej), DVDs (Kong, Robin Hood,

Jungle Book).

Jan 2004 – Jul 3d Generalist at SciClone Motion Graphics, Mumbai

Rigged Realistic characters in Alias Maya 5, Softimage XSI 4 and Hudini 2.

2005

Rigged simple props.

(1 year 1 month)

Modeled and textured props for commercial ads.

Managed Tracking in AfterEffects 6.5 and water ripples in RealFlow 3 for

commercial ads.

Rigged for a short film on Elvis Presley.

Mar 2002 – Dec Chemical Engineer at Komal Water, Mumbai.

2003 (8 months)

Mar 2001 – Feb T rainee Engineer at Hikal Chemicals, Mumbai.

2002 (1 year)

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Visiting Faculty f or Rigging and Animation at Toons Skool Kandivali, Motion Maker Andheri and

Visual Art Sanpada, Mumbai for past 3 years.

Participated at CGTExpo 2011 f or Rigging Workshop (Artist Live) at Nehru Center, Mumbai.

NOTE WORTHY

Looking for full-time employment.

Show-reel available at http://vimeo.com/33729442

Need 15 days notice period to join.

LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/subhashpawar

Ready to relocate.

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